looking for suggestions on an LCD for spreadsheet modeling

[Deleted member 82943]

Here's my dilema: I'm a finance/econ major and do a lot of excel work and I hate the small screen on my dell D620 laptop...So I was thinking of getting a decent, probably used, monitor from someone here at [H] that would go well with the laptop. Meaning, I don't want an uber monitor when the videocard on my laptop probably won't do all that many pixels. It's an NVS110M powered lappy.

I'm hoping for 22inches or more unless that is totally overkill, but generally the most realestate I can get for the most fair/least price is what I'm looking for. Thanks guys!

alex

thinking about this one: thoughts?

http://www.frys.com/product/5908084?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

 

[SD45]

Think carefully about your preferred zoom percentage (depends on your eyesight, how far away you want the screen to be, etc.) and your preferred page setup for both landscape and portait mode (scaling percentage, margins, etc.) As a longtime spreadsheet user, I can only offer that it is advantageous to have the number of rows on the printed page be the same as, or some multiple of, the number of rows on screen. That way, when you toggle down through the spreadsheet using the Page Down or Page Up button, the display lands either on the top row of each page or some even fraction of the top row, i.e., one or two or three toggles at most gets you to the top of the page. This reduces your frustration enormously. Life is too short to spend it being frustrated by this kind of thing.

For my eyes, which like all the Windows fonts to be at 125%, a 1680x1050 resolution screen works pretty well for Excel. At 130% zoom (which is very natural looking) it will put 30 rows on screen. At 153% (a little big but still OK) it will put 25 rows on screen. Sixty rows printed on a portrait page is fairly readable good; so is fifty rows on landscape.

I have moved up to 24 inch (1900x1200) displays, which work much better for Word, allowing me to see more of the page vertically, but my older 21 inch display is actually better for Excel.

 

[Deleted member 82943]

interesting, thanks for that. I didn't think about looking into maximizing the productivity of my excel usage.

thanks.